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Falcon fever : a falconer in the twenty-first century / Tim Gallagher.
- Title
- Falcon fever : a falconer in the twenty-first century / Tim Gallagher.
- Author
- Gallagher, Tim.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | SK17.G2 G35 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 326 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The author shares his lifelong obsession with falcons, discusses the subculture of individuals involved in falconry, and explores the role of the sport in providing him with emotional solace in response to his turbulent childhood.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Anecdotes
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. I. My back pages : The falcon dreamer -- Rex and Rowdy -- The biker -- Blow up -- Flying free -- Centerville days -- The long spiral downward -- Desolation row -- O Tank -- pt. II. My Frederick II year : In Frederick II's footsteps -- Winter in Wyoming -- Highland fling -- A born-again falconer -- Forty years after -- The Saracen Citadel -- The eye of Apulia -- Jewel of the hill -- On to Sicily -- Palermo without a map -- The hawks of Herculaneum -- See Rome and die -- Homeward bound.
- ISBN
- 9780618805754
- 0618805753 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007043923
- OCLC
- 180204871
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library